Gapers Block has ceased publication.
Gapers Block published from April 22, 2003 to Jan. 1, 2016. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
✶ Thank you for your readership and contributions. ✶
TODAY
Friday, April 26
Merge
Eric Zorn, a man who never met Alicia Frantz in person, has written a beautiful column dedicated to her. GB staffer Jes Davis also wrote a moving post as did Shylo Bisnett, Ken Meier, Paul McAleer, Naz Hamid, Jessica, Archie FlorCruz, the Michalik Funeral Home's blog entry, Avoision, Lacey, Bill, Kevin, Cinnamon, annahplanet, klink_klank, Tense Forms, Paul McCann, Andrew Huff, Wendy McClure and many others. If you'd like your link included in this, email it to cc@gapersblock.com
Elsewhere on Gapers Block Right Now:
A/C Arts & Culture
- Bye Bye, Gapers Block from the A/C Team
- At the MCA: Pop Art Design Gives Us a Refresher Course on the '60s and '70s
- Black Ensemble Theater's Dynamite Divas: See It for the Music Feature:
- Paul Goldberger Describes the "Pragmatism and Poetry" of Frank Gehry's Architecture in His New Book Steve at the Movies:
- Best Feature Films & Documentaries of 2015
Book Club Books
Drive-Thru Food
Mechanics Politics
- Where are the Peace Candidates?
- On Gapers Block and Chicago
- Recall: What Could Happen Next? Revenge of the Second City:
- Ventra's Parent Company: An International History of Fare Card Glitches Classroom Mechanics:
